Backing up my D

[nishant]

Hi
I have a little bit of stuff on my D partion. Just for peace of mind I wanted to back up everything on it to CD-Rs. What should I do in order to backup up everything in an organised manner, and using the full 700MBs of space on the CDRs? The content of my drive D is around 3 Gb. Can some one give me some ideas how to organise all this? Thanx guys I'd really appreciate it.

-Nishant

[BipolarBill]

Use WinZip and a CDRW. Select the contents of the D drive and drag it all to a WinZip window. Specify a name for the backup and the blank CD as the path. When the first CDRW is full, WinZip should prompt you for a new disk. Repeat ad nauseum. :p

http://www.winzip.com/xspan.htm

[Fatal_Exception]

Disk spanning won't work on cdr's--preformatted cdrw's are required for this to work.

CDR's are cheap enough you can drag and drop most of the stuff you have on D:\ if it is not programs. If it is programs, you should be backing up the installers, not the programs themselves.

Only save work product and zip (or other compressed) files.

Save all you pics to one CDR, docs to another, etc. You don't have to fill each CDR.

Be sure to have your write your CDR's using long file name format instead of ISO.